Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Islands (galmoy By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Islands (galmoy By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73544, -7.57987
- SMR number
- KK008-193----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a marshy field on the edge of wetlands to the W. Excavated in 2006 in advance of the M8/N8 Cullahill to Cashel Road Improvement Scheme (Excavation licence no. E2387). A mound (15.5m E-W; 17m N-S; D 0.37m) of compact sandy silt with frequent charcoal and heat-shattered stone. It overlay three small pits filled by similar silt, charcoal and heat affected stone. A sample of charcoal from the mound returned a radiocarbon date of 1670-1490 cal BC (Poz-23536). (Hardy 2009, 266-7, no. 1040; Hardy and Green 2009)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 15 October 2013
References
Hardy, C. and Green, B. 2009 M8/N8 Cullahill to Cashel Road Improvement Scheme: Archaeological Resolution. Final report. Ministerial Direction: A027/000 Registration No.: E2387. Site AR 45, Islands Townland, Co. Kilkenny. Unpublished excavation report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Hardy, C. 2009 Site AR45, Islands. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 266-7, no. 1040. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.